Gastropoda - Trochoidea - Turbinidae
Synonyms: Delphinulidae Stoliczka 1868, Delphinulinae Stoliczka 1868
Parent taxon: Turbinidae according to P. Bouchet et al. 2005
See also Beesley 1998, Dockery 1993, Harzhauser 2004, Knight et al. 1960, Kosnik 2002, Ladd 1966, Pacaud and Le Renard 1995 and Wilson 1993
Sister taxa: Anomphalinae, Arene, Astraea, Bakonyia, Bandelastraea, Coelobolma, Cynisca, Fischeriella, Flacilla, Galeoastraea, Gelasinostoma, Guizhouia, Homalopoma, Kaurnella, Klebyella, Littorinolacuna, Macrarene, Margaritinae, Moelleriinae, Moreanellinae, Nemrac, Odoardia, Prisogaster, Prisogasterinae, Prototurbo, Torallochus, Turbininae, Turboidea
Subtaxa: Ampezzalina Angaria Meiersia
Ecology: epifaunal grazer
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Australia (1 collection), Japan (3), United States (4: South Carolina)
• Pliocene of Holy See (Vatican City State) (1), Indonesia (2), Japan (1)
• Miocene of Australia (1), Guam (1), India (1), Indonesia (4), Iran (1), Italy (1)
• Oligocene of Austria (1), Greece (1), Iran (1), Italy (1), Romania (1)
• Eocene of Australia (2), France (7), Indonesia (2), Italy (1), Pakistan (1), Romania (4), Spain (13), the United Kingdom (1), United States (1: Alabama)
• Paleocene of Belgium (1), Denmark (1), France (1), Poland (2), Turkey (2)
• Cretaceous of Austria (2), France (3), Germany (1), Japan (7), Mexico (1), New Zealand (1), Serbia and Montenegro (1), Spain (1), Switzerland (2), the United Kingdom (2), Venezuela (1)
• Jurassic of France (1), Germany (1), Greenland (17), Luxembourg (1), Portugal (3), the United Kingdom (1)
• Triassic of Iran (1), Italy (1)
• Permian of Thailand (1)
Total: 114 collections including 128 occurrences